Inglis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Inglis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From le Engleys, ‘the Englishman’; Scottish descendants used Inglis.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17K
- CACanada≈1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Inglis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
46,393 named English, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled English in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From le Engleys, ‘the Englishman’; Scottish descendants used Inglis. Recorded as Rauf le Engleys in 1296.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inglis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 46,393as English | 1 in 7.2K | 46K | Inglis | 316 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Inglis | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Inglis | 192 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Inglis | 175 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Inglis | 153 |
| GY Guyana | — | 403as English | 1 in 1.9K | 403 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Inglis | 88 |
| GR Greece | #556 | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | English | 19 |
| GD Grenada | — | 42as English | 1 in 2.7K | 42 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | 7 |
46,393 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling english. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Inglis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Originally prefixed by le as in Rauf le Engleys (1296) to indicate ‘the Englishman’, but Scottish descendants were simply Inglis. There were numerous Inglis families in central and southern districts. Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), born in Nainital, India, was a pioneer woman doctor.
as a nameScottish Surnames
from a term denoting an Englishman or an English speaker, in Gaelic-speaking areas denoting an Englishspeaking Scot. Compare English.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A surname from Old English [in turn originating as an ethnonym].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a different form of English
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Estonian, inessive singular of ingel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esther Inglisb. 1571GBScottish painter, translator and calligrapher (1571-1624)
- Robert Inglisb. 1786GBBritish politician (1786-1855)
- Henry David Inglisb. 1795GBScottish writer (1795–1835)
- Elsie Inglisb. 1864INScottish doctor
- Charles Inglisb. 1875GBBritish civil engineer (1875-1952)
- Elizabeth Inglisb. 1913GBEnglish actress (1913–2007)
- Bob Inglisb. 1959USformer U.S. congressman
- Mark Inglisb. 1959NZNew Zealand sportsman
- Duncan Jamesb. 1978GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer
- Maddison Inglisb. 1998AUAustralian tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Inglis come from?
- From le Engleys, ‘the Englishman’; Scottish descendants used Inglis. Recorded as Rauf le Engleys in 1296. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- What does the name Inglis mean?
- Recorded meaning: From le Engleys, ‘the Englishman’; Scottish descendants used Inglis.
- In which country does Inglis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named English, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Inglis?
- In Norway, the national register counted 38 people named Inglis, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
- How common is Inglis compared with other names?
- In Greece, Inglis is the 556th most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inglisThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Inglis” — the 556th most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.